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France: Turkey-Armenia talks not linked to Karabakh dispute Published on 23 July, 2009
 The statement from France, one of the three countries leading international efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh problem in the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), followed remarks by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Baku last week that there will be no normalization in ties with Armenia unless Armenia withdraws from Nagorno-Karabakh.
“The normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations and the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict are two different processes that should proceed on parallel tracks and in their own rhythm,” the French Embassy said in a statement. It said progress on one of these tracks will positively influence the situation in the South Caucasus.
“France supports and encourages rapprochement between Turkey and Armenia,” the statement said, vowing to continue to work for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute together with the United States and Russia, the other members of the Minsk Group.
The embassy statement came days after the French co-chairman of the Minsk Group, Ambassador Bernard Fassier, visited Ankara on a tour of the region. Before coming to Ankara, Fassier reiterated in Baku that the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement efforts and the Turkish-Armenian normalization talks were parallel but separate processes, Today’s Zaman reported.
Source: www.armradio.am
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